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Urologic Diseases Research Updates
Summer 2011

NIDDK Staff Update

Padma Maruvada, Ph.D, joined the Division of Digestive Diseases and Nutrition as the new director of the Nutrition and Clinical Obesity Program. Maruvada served as the program officer in the National Center for Research Resources for the Institutional Development Awards Program, where she managed a multidisciplinary research portfolio. She also served as program director in the National Cancer Institute’s Division of Cancer Prevention. Maruvada trained in the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases’ intramural research program.

NIH Publication No. 11–5743
September 2011

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